Following is a abstract of present leisure information briefs.

Post-strike Hollywood rushes to get movie, TV units buzzing

Hours earlier than the Hollywood actors’ strike formally ended, Beth Goodnight’s telephone started ringing with alternative. The head of a Hollywood development firm and prop store that bears her title dispatched two venture managers to start bidding for work. By the top of Wednesday, that they had crunched numbers on seven tasks, together with a Super Bowl business, a tv present, a big occasion and smaller items that add as much as lots of of hundreds of {dollars}.

Beatlemania is again as chart-topping ‘Now And Then’ breaks information

The Beatles returned to the highest of the UK music charts on Friday, with the record-breaking monitor “Now And Then”, making historical past because the act with the longest hole between its first and final No. 1 single. Billed because the final Beatles track, “Now And Then” options the voice of late member John Lennon and was developed utilizing synthetic intelligence. It additionally options elements recorded by surviving members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in addition to the late George Harrison.

SZA tops Grammy nominations in a yr made for ladies and ‘Barbie’

Versatile recording artist SZA led this yr’s Grammy Award nominations with 9, coming in forward of trade heavyweights Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus and Billie Eilish, in a yr made for ladies artists and the film blockbuster “Barbie.” The winners might be introduced on the awards ceremony on Feb. 4.

Hollywood actors win streaming bonuses beneath new contract

Streaming providers pays bonuses of roughly $40 million per yr as a part of the tentative labor settlement reached between the SAG-AFTRA actors union and main Hollywood studios, union leaders mentioned on Friday after their board backed the deal. The proposed three-year contract, which the union mentioned was valued at greater than $1 billion over three years, was endorsed by 86% of SAG-AFTRA’s nationwide board.

(With inputs from businesses.)